[olug] Knoppix question

[Shaughn]

I use knoppix for this sort of thing ALL the time. The only thing is KDE 
requires 128megs of ram. So it will require a swap file on the dos 
partition, it will also let you know this. If this is the way you go, 
KDE will run very slowly as everything's going to a swap file. So you 
will most likely want to run command line for it.

Another thing, hard drives don't really 'loose' an operating system, 
generally when this happens, the drive is shot or very close to being 
shot. So you might want to download a CD Tool called  UBCD 2.0 (availble 
on source-forge) this will give you some software hard drive testing 
utilities.

VHP3 wrote:

>Recently, my g/f's computer basically died.  Where as
>it used to run Win98, it know says "Operating System
>not found", so I was thinking of using Knoppix to
>recover her data onto a floppy.  But the thing is her
>laptop, on which this happened, is seriously old...P2
>400, 32 MB RAM I do believe.  Since this is way below
>the minimum specs to run KDE, I'm guessing that this
>will drop me into command-line only.  
>
>But my question(s) is a) has anyone tried to boot
>Knoppix on such a resource limited machine before?,
>and if so b) what else can I expect?
>
>Thanks,
>Vince
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